Business & GABottomed Out, Bouncing Back Airframers and suppliers are ready for a rebound in global business aviation next year, although views differ on the timing and shape of the industry’s recovery. When business does pick up, larger…
ATM ModernizationFAA’s SE2020: Supporting NextGen With Research, Engineering Earlier this year, FAA awarded six contracts to industry teams under the Systems Engineering 2020 (SE2020) program. The SE2020 portfolio of contracts, with an estimated value of about $6.4 billion over 10…
CommercialProduct Focus: Displays It’s getting increasingly rare for aerospace technology to drive other markets. It’s usually the other way around — a technology developed and proven in the commercial, retail market, for example, eventually works…
ATM ModernizationPerspectives: Flow Management Some readers may not be clear about the significant role Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) will play in virtually all aspects of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). However, as I…
CommercialUzbekistan Airways to Use Teledyne Equipment Teledyne Controls, based in El Segundo, Calif., will provide its Flight Data Interface Management Unit (FDIMU) for Uzbekistan Airways on its new Airbus A320s. Uzbekistan Airways will use Teledyne’s FDIMU to perform flight data…
MilitaryL-3 Link to Provide Simulators to Army L-3 Link Simulation & Training, based in Arlington, Texas., was awarded contract modifications from Computer Sciences Corp. to provide a third OH-58D Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) and convert three existing UH-60A/L Instrument…
CommercialCSSI Wins FAA Safety Support Contract CSSI, Inc., based in Washington, D.C., was awarded a $124 million task order contract to support FAA's Air Traffic Organization’s (ATO) Office of Safety. Under this contract, CSSI will apply safety management system principles…
CommercialRockwell Collins Delivers Trainer Rockwell Collins delivered its Virtual Avionics Procedures Trainer (VAPT) system to Corporate Aircraft SA, an authorized dealer of Hawker Beechcraft aircraft, for an unnamed customer. The device will train pilots flying King…